This was never intended to be an item for lazy people to max their conduit ilvls. It just helps people with bad luck. If you've already done what they consider to be the hardest stuff in the game, then go ahead and max out your conduits.
This should have been locked behind a heroic Sepulcher clear or 2k io. I say that because that would make it feel like something of an achievement, make it accessible for alts, and make it available for more than just ~3% of the total player base. There are currently 241 people rated at 3k or higher on r.io. 241 out of 1.8 million listed characters. That's .013% of M+ players that would be eligible for this thing. That is depressingly low.
PVP/Raid/Mythic+ was one of the requirements before, it is not newly added.
Hey, 3k io is not the same and 3k mythic rating.3k io is people clearing all dungeons over 27 and given a rating by raider.ioThe wow achivement and rating of 3k would be the equivalent of finishing all 20+ dungeons. Which is not even close to just being 241 players out of the player base
Isn't the point of conduits to help you clear difficult content? If I cleared the mythic raid why would I even bother to go back for conduits? Seems pointless.
Since people are confused, 3k io in 9.2 is the equivalent of 2.4k io in 9.1. Looking at the stats on raider.io at the moment, the top 10% of M+ runners is 2088 for Alliance and 2151 for horde. The top 1% is at 2460 for Alliance and 2527 for Horde. This means that the 2.4k mark is somewhere probably in the top 1-3% of characters (there's a lot of alts up in that range, so who knows how many players it is (it's about 10k characters added up for US in the top 1%)). And I don't expect that it's going to drastically change. So pretty high bar in comparison to the way to get all 252's in 9.1.5 (just rift farm for hours on end, you can knock it out in a day on a new toon with a good group (toy + macro))
You don't need 278 conduits if you are not playing Mythic raid, High PvP or M+. It is good change you will get upgrades just by playing game.
Max ilvl conduits are only nessessary for those in the top 0.1% in pve and pvp. This item allows for those people to not have to wait for RNG and/or play content that is unrelated to the part of the game they enjoy (pvpers having to raid). For these players, these requirements are not difficult at all.For those complaining the requirements are too hard, you're not the audience for this item and you don't need these high ilvl conduits for the content you participate in.